FULL TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Arsenal

And that’s that. No goals, no near misses, no VAR controversy. You couldn’t put a cigarette paper between these two teams. So it’s off to the Emirates in a fortnight for another 90 minutes, followed by extra time and penalty kicks.

89 min: Fabregas wriggles free down the right and sends a low cross into the mixer. It deflects off Xhaka, onto the right-hand post, and out for a corner! Then there’s some retrospective VAR action, as they check the Welbeck-Fabregas coming together. After a wee wait, it’s no penalty and play is waved on. It’s a corner, which isn’t all that.

87 min: Chelsea finally get a go, and Elneny is booked for a late clip on Morata. That’s the striker’s last involvement; he’s swapped for Batshuayi. Fabregas races down the right and into the area. He stands on Welbeck’s ankle as the pair challenge for the ball and goes over. A penalty claim! But play goes on.

84 min: Sanchez dribbles in from the left wing and is barged to the ground by Willian. A free kick, and one that Sanchez will be taking himself. Surely, at the best part of 30 yards, it’s too far out to shoot?

80 min: Kante is booked for a cynical lunge on Welbeck, who was making off down the inside-left channel. He issues a complaint, though there’s not much basis for it. Sanchez takes the free kick, curling it to the far post in the hope of finding Mustafi. It’s too strongly hit, and it’s a goal kick.

78 min: After a fairly stodgy few minutes, this is opening up again. Iwobi twists and turns on the edge of the Chelsea box, but can’t quite fashion a shooting opportunity. Any goal scored now, by either team, would be so precious.

77 min: Alonso and Morata combine beautifully down the left, a quick ping-ping, to release Hazard into acres of space down the left. Hazard enters the area but the angle’s tight, and his low cross-cum-shot isn’t much cop. Willian was waiting in the middle to sidefoot home, too. Chelsea soon come back at Arsenal for a second go, Alonso having a crack from distance down the left. Not quite.

74 min: On the touchline, Antonio Conte has a good old chew on his fingernails. He’ll be desperate for a winning goal. Chelsea have been on top for the majority of the match, but Arsenal have held them at arm’s length for the most part.

72 min: A brilliant shimmy and shake in the centre circle by Iwobi, and he’s suddenly in a lot of space. He powers wonderfully towards the Chelsea box, then snatches at his shot from the edge of the area, and the ball dribbles through to Courtois. He had Sanchez to his right, screaming for the pass, but he was entitled to have a go. Shame it was so lame after an excellent run.

69 min: Morata hares down the left. His low cross is meant for Fabregas, but is deflected into the path of Hazard, who puts Chambers down on his arse by dropping a shoulder. He’s poised to shoot from the edge of the box, but Elneny does very well to close him down and snuff out the danger.

66 min: Sanchez comes on for Lacazette. Moses, to the right of the D, has a dig which is deflected and balloons over the bar. From the corner, Christensen rises and plants a header to the right of the goal.

65 min: Chelsea are pressing Arsenal deeper and deeper, but the visitors are holding their shape. Drinkwater and Moses are doing an awful lot of probing down the right, the inexperienced Maitland-Niles presumably having been identified as a weak link. Nothing doing yet, though.

61 min: Maitland-Niles curls a delicious ball into the Chelsea box from deep on the left. He’s inches away from finding the head of the inrushing Welbeck, but there’s a little too much height on the cross and the ball floats through to Courtois. Much better from Arsenal, though.

60 min:Arsenal can’t get a sniff of the ball at the moment. But they’re forcing Chelsea to do most of their work in the middle third of the pitch. Azpilicueta is doing quite a lot of quarterbacking, but he can’t find Morata or Hazard with his long, floated passes.

58 min: Morata spins away from Mustafi down the right and bursts into the box. He’s faced with Ospina, and a very, very tight angle, and very nearly squeezes it in. A highly decent effort, albeit one that ends up rippling the side netting.

Close but no cigar for Chelsea’s Alvaro Morat. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters

54 min: Drinkwater has a whack from distance. It’s blocked by Mustafi’s armpit. Moses wheechs down the right and earns a corner off Wilshere. Alonso gets his head on the set piece, rushing in, six yards out, but somehow can’t get an effort on target.

50 min: It’s a little bit scrappy, with nothing much happening. Morata misplaces a pass in the midfield, then narrowly fails to tee up Hazard on the edge of the Arsenal penalty area. On both occasions, the Chelsea faithful let out the Fernando Torres Groan.

47 min: From the second set piece, the ball’s flicked on to Christensen by the right-hand post. He must score, surely, but gets under his header and sends it over the bar. What a chance, the closest there’s been to a goal so far.

46 min:Chelsea waste no time in winning a corner down the right, Moses and Hazard combining briskly and crisply. The ball drops to Kante, just to the left of the D. He hammers a fine rising shot goalwards, but hits his own man Christensen. The rebound leads to some head tennis, and then another corner, this time on the left.

HALF TIME: Chelsea 0-0 Arsenal

45 min: Welbeck eyebrows the free kick over his own bar, conceding a corner. The ball is shifted way back to Azpilicueta, who floats a stunning pass down the inside-left for Fabregas, who has broken clear of the Arsenal back line and will meet it with his head, just inside the area, level with the left-hand post. He sends the ball towards the bottom left; Ospina gathers on the line. He might have done a little better there; anything sent towards the right-hand side of the net would have surely beaten the keeper given his starting position.

43 min: Azpilicueta plays a pass down the middle from deep. Fabregas flicks it instantly, and very nearly releases Hazard clean through. Mustafi does very well to stick to his man, and guides the ball back to Ospina.